Noah's Flood: Myth or Reality? P2

Deluge myth:
deluge myth or flood myth is a mythical story of a great flood sent by a deity or deities to destroy civilization as an act of divine retribution. It is a widespread theme among many cultures, though it is perhaps best known in modern times through the biblical account of Noah's Ark, the Hindu Puranic story of Manu, through Deucalion in Greek mythology or Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Black Sea deluge theory:
The Black Sea deluge is a hypothesized catastrophic rise in the level of the Black Sea circa 5600 BC due to waters from the Mediterranean Sea breaching a sill in the Bosporus Strait. The hypothesis made headlines when The New York Times published it in December 1996, shortly before it was published in an academic journal. While it is agreed that the sequence of events described did occur, there is debate over the suddenness and magnitude of the events. Two opposing hypotheses have arisen to explain the rise of the Black Sea: gradual and oscillating. The oscillating hypothesis specifies that over the last 30,000 years, water has intermittently flowed back and forth between the Black Sea and Aegean Sea in relatively small magnitudes.

Flood hypothesis:
In 1997, Bill Ryan and Walter Pitman published evidence that a massive flooding of the Black Sea occurred about 5600 BC through the Bosporus, following this scenario. Before that date, glacial meltwater had turned the Black and Caspian Seas into vast freshwater lakes which were draining into the Aegean Sea. As glaciers retreated, some of the rivers emptying into the Black Sea declined in volume and changed course to drain into the North Sea. The levels of the lakes dropped through evaporation, while changes in worldwide hydrology caused sea level to rise. The rising Mediterranean finally spilled over a rocky sill at the Bosporus. The event flooded 155,000 km2 (60,000 sq mi) of land and significantly expanded the Black Sea shoreline to the north and west. According to the researchers, "Ten cubic miles [42 km3] of water poured through each day, two hundred times what flows over Niagara Falls ... The Bosporus flume roared and surged at full spate for at least three hundred days."
Samplings of sediments in the Black Sea by a series of expeditions carried out between 1998 to 2005 confirmed the conclusion of Pitman and Ryan. These results were also completed by the Noah project led by the Bulgarian Institute of Oceanography (IO-BAS).[6][page needed] Furthermore, calculations made by Mark Siddall predicted an underwater canyon that was actually found.

Evidence from archaeology
Although neolithic agriculture had by that time already reached the Pannonian plain, Ryan and Pittman link its spread with people displaced by the postulated flood. More recent examinations by oceanographers such as Teofilo A. "Jun" Abrajano Jr. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his Canadian colleague Ali Aksu of Memorial University of Newfoundland have cast some doubt on this linkage. Abrajano's team, finding sapropel mud deposits in the Sea of Marmara which are today associated with freshwater outflow over top of salt-water inflow, have concluded that there has been sustained fresh water outflow from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea for at least 10,000 years: Aksu found an underwater delta south of the Bosporus; evidence for a strong flow of fresh water out of the Black Sea in the 8th millennium BC. In a series of expeditions, a team of marine archeologists led by Robert Ballard identified what appeared to be ancient shorelines, freshwater snail shells, drowned river valleys, tool-worked timbers, and man-made structures in roughly 300 feet (100 m) of water off the Black Sea coast of modern Turkey. Although radiocarbon dating of freshwater mollusk remains indicated an age of about 7,500 years, one should note that radiocarbon dating in freshwater mollusks in particular can be inaccurate. Such inaccuracies, however, are always in the direction of objects appearing older than they actually are (containing less 14C than expected), so the time given is a maximum age of a freshwater shoreline at that location.

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[TheMrGobble]

That woman is annoying me.

[KurdstanPlanetarium]

@TheMrGobble she annoying every one who knows the truth abut the Flood and pay a visit here...

[EsaulRuss]

This archeologist lady seems like a total ass. I am a member of Crimean archeological team and have read the Gilgamesh epic. There is no doubt that Gilgamesh travels north east or north west, and he comes to the Bosporus strait.

[KurdstanPlanetarium]

@EsaulRuss to be honest I agree with you, she has no idea of the origin of the epic of Gilgamesh by sumerians who migrated from the North, most probabley from the black sea. The sumerians had witnessed the flood as it ruined their homeland, thats why they migrated to the wormer south, till eventually setteled in Mesopotamia and establishe the first true ancient civilsation,check out many of the comments in the first part, to see what you make of it..

[spa05akw]

Magic land - that´s THRACE!

[wiseyeffect]

@gregrutz I never said there was a worldlflood. I just got out of a lecture from a astrophysic professor,he said my fact are compelling.

[gregrutz]

@wiseyeffect The Chinese have a long history and lots of recorded floods, but they did not all die in a global flood.

[gregrutz]

@wiseyeffect All you need to do is go to the Grand Canyon to know there was never a global flood and the earth is millions of years old.

[wiseyeffect]

@gregrutz  here a place to start your education:

-IBEX discovery outside heliopause

-radiation ice core samples of 26,000ur cycle

-ultraviolet stars and ionized hydrogen clouds=H2O or HHO

-holes in earths magnetosphere

-planetary warming of solar system

-heliosphere and Earth atmosphere compression causes earthquake and volcanism

[wiseyeffect]

@gregrutz I said the flood myth is interesting. Durring the time of the Cloves people of north America they died by flood. I have documents from Nasas page that were signed by Congress in 2003 for a preparedness act starting 2010,2011. We are entering a ionized hydrogen cloud which is the cause of globalwarming,past asteriod impact,and mass extinction levels every 26000yrs. O'yeah,these cloud are believed to be the scource of water. I think you should research more before judging me.

[gregrutz]

@wiseyeffect That is funny. Amazing the crap you can make up when you don't need any evidence.

What is the name of the flood mud layer with all the dead bodies in it?

[wiseyeffect]

Noahs flood is interesting! Our system passes through an ionized hydrogen cloud in a great cycle,and when it does the heliosphere is compressed causing holes in the magnetosphere.If a mass amount of the cloud enters our oxygen atmosphere it could produce a mass flood.

[Dasmaster1]

... radio carbon dating? ... on shells? FAIL that dosent work and all REAL scientists know that!